Ticket to ride: David Squire, Managing Director, Yellow Buses (third right) with Phil Pannell, Service Delivery Director (third left); Dave Bowen, Traffic Manager (left) and members of the team at the new Poole outstation.
Yellow Buses has significantly expanded its operations by opening a new outstation in Poole, the first in its history.
The company has added to its existing Yeomans Way base in Bournemouth with a mini-depot on Poole’s Endeavour Business Park.
Buses started operating from the Witney Road site on Monday November 13 with the first vehicle leaving at 0540. There are plans to eventually store up to 18 vehicles overnight.
The new outstation will allow Yellow Buses to expand its services in Poole, covering Hamworthy, Canford Heath, Creekmoor and Upton, as well as towns such as Wimborne, Blandford and Swanage.
It will also cut down on empty trips to Yeomans Way for services starting and ending in Poole and surrounding areas and enable staff to be recruited over a wider area.
When fully operational, around 50 staff, mainly drivers, will be based at the new site which will build up in phases over the coming six months.
It’s the first time Bournemouth Transport, which trades as Yellow Buses, has had an outstation in Poole in its 115-year history.
David Squire, who was appointed as Managing Director of Yellow Buses in October, said: “This is a major development for us, offering significant opportunities to operate both more efficiently and smartly, and also become a platform for future growth.
“We have been looking for a suitable location in Poole for some time. This site on the outskirts of the town fits the bill perfectly and will put us in an excellent position to grow the business over the coming months and years.”
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 140 buses and 16 coaches with more than 410 staff.
The company carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth,
Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
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RATP Dev in the United Kingdom and Ireland
The United Kingdom is a strategic market for RATP Dev with revenues in excess of £300 million and a workforce of over 4,500.
RATP Dev’s presence in the United Kingdom comprises the following activities:
- RATP Dev London, through its subsidiaries London United, London Sovereign and Quality Line:
– employs 3,400 staff
– operates more than 1,000 buses under contract to Transport for London (TfL)
– transports more than 200 million passengers per annum in the British capital
- Under the Yellow Buses brand, RATP Dev’s subsidiary Bournemouth Transport operates award-winning commercial bus services in and around Bournemouth. Further de-regulated bus services are provided also by the Bath Bus Company.
- RATP Dev has significant coach operations, primarily through Epsilon Travel (Surrey) and Selwyns Travel (Cheshire).
- RATP Dev is a major player in the hop-on, hop-off sightseeing bus tour activity. Following its 2014 acquisition of The Original London Sightseeing Tour, RATP Dev now has operations of this kind in London, as well as Paris and New York.
- In 2015, RATP Dev launched Slide, an innovative minibus service in Bristol, using digital technology to offer personalised transport to non-bus users on a route and at a time of their choosing via an app.
About RATP Dev
Founded in 2002, RATP Dev operates and maintains urban transportation systems in 14 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, and the United States of America). With more than 1.5 billion passengers travelling on its networks every year, RATP Dev demonstrates every day its extensive and renowned expertise in a wide range of mobility services, ranging from rail, regional express rail, tramway, to bus, cable car and sightseeing activities. RATP Dev leverages in France, outside of Paris, and across international markets, the technical expertise and experience of RATP Group, the leader in driverless and tramway operations and operator of the Paris network, one of the largest public transportation networks in the world.
About RATP Group
With nearly 16 million daily passengers worldwide, RATP Group is the fifth largest urban transportation operator in the world. With its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express rail lines, seven tramway lines and 350 bus lines, the multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region is the largest in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP Group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the mode of transportation (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility (including passenger information, remote ticketing, pricing and customer marketing). The automation of the Paris metro’s line 1 completed at the end of 2012 is a world’s first and once again demonstrated RATP Group skill in concluding particularly complex projects.
RATP Group exports its know-how all over the world; in engineering through Systra, its subsidiary jointly owned with SNCF, in operations and maintenance via its wholly-owned RATP Dev subsidiary and in innovative services to promote mobility through its IXXI subsidiary.
RATP Group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 employees worldwide and in 2016 generated revenue of 5.4 billion euros.
